Western Civilization II / Unit 17 WC2 1608 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Advance Halts: Partisans, Winter, and Factories Moved East
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The idea
The welcome vanished under work gangs and murder, and partisans rose behind the lines. Supply stretched, mud came, then cold: frozen engines. The Germans froze in place in the winter of forty-one. Whole factories were dismantled and moved east; by nineteen forty-three Soviet output exceeded German.
In practice
One point four million German casualties, the anchor says.
Where people slip
Eighteen twelve, the anchor's parallel.
Your place on the trail
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